Music Business News: North America

52,600 artists generated over $10k on Spotify last year – and 15,140 of them uploaded their own music

Revelatory new stats published on Spotify's updated Loud & Clear website today

Sony partners with advocacy organization GLAAD to advance LGBTQ representation in music

Partnership includes several initiatives to advance LGBTQ advocacy and inclusion at Sony Music Group and within the broader music industry

Warner partners with pre-licensed music for games platform STYNGR

WMG to supply game developers with access to pre-licensed tracks from portions of its music catalog

Brigette Boyle promoted to Executive Vice President, Media Operations for Warner Recorded Music

For more than a decade, Boyle served as Senior Vice President, Media Operations

Snoop Dogg, Google Ventures and Samsung join $450m seed funding round for Yuga Labs, the web3 firm behind Bored Ape Yacht Club

Funding round values Yuga Labs at $4 billion

‘Free’ music streaming paid the record industry $4.6bn in 2021… and other key insights from the latest IFPI Global Music Report

MBW crunches the IFPI's latest numbers – and discovers some head-turning facts and figures

Roblox and Sony reveal that 24kGoldn will be the latest artist to perform a virtual concert on the gaming platform

Pre-concert 'quests' have already seen over 1.6m visits

Apple’s music recognition app Shazam is also a concert discovery platform now

Shazam now counts over 225 million monthly active users